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After too many years of only minor updates (mostly my CV and a small
change in the address) I finally rebuilt the site
using Jekyll, which is both easy
to use and seems flexible enough to do whatever I want. After two
days it is up and running, including tags, less time than what I
spent on the unsuccessful attempt in the intervening years.
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This is a view of the top of the motherboard.
According to the
schematics released by LEGO
the part missing in the upper right was a battery current sensor on AD5.
The black smudge at the square speaker connector covered
an additional part in the speaker cable, a 10 Ohm resistor
which is not in the schematics.
I unsoldered it together with the speaker cable
to get the LCD daughter board out of the way for photographing
the motherboard.
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